Remember that question Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin about which newspapers she reads? Palin never answered the question and since then many have wondered why. I was curious myself so I asked her about it.
I interviewed Gov. Palin this weekend for 20 minutes in Lancaster, Pa. My full report can be seen Tuesday on The 700 Club. Check The Brody File for other clips regarding her faith, media scrutiny and much more.
Watch her answer above. The transcription is below.
Brody: There has been a lot of talk at least in media circles, everybody's a little confused as to on the newspaper question that Katie Couric asked you as to why you maybe didn't name some of the newspapers that you read or why you answered it the way you did, and I'm curious, because a lot of people are like, well why didn't she just say The New York Times, or the Wasilla Journal or whatever it is. Can you, can you clear that up a little bit?
Palin: And it's not just that question, but it was some of the other questions that she asked me also and, and it was, I guess my being such an outsider from the Washington elite and the media elite is the questions she kept asking me were, I kept thinking why aren't you asking me things that really, really matter right now about our economy and about how we're going to win the war and about protecting our Constitutional rights in this country, some of the questions that were being fired at me, I was kind of impatient and I think that showed, it's like come on Katie, let's talk about the things that really matter and two, the other part of that was I knew that whatever I threw out there, whether it's the USA Today, or New York Times or whatever I said, that's just more fodder for someone to not only mock, but tear apart and presume to at least claim that that is a reflection of my own beliefs, so you know, so I just felt like, let's just move on to the next question.
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